Greece's Diary

2/2/14

Hey Sophia,

I've been thinking about silence. Total silence. I don't mean home-alone silence, when there's nobody speaking at all and if you stay still and don't touch anything you won't even hear the tiny sound of friction. I mean total silence. No breathing. No friction. Not even the constant buzz of thought. How can one hear that silence? Or not, so to speak. The only way I can think of is death. But if you die you won't be able to appreciate the silence. Perhaps it's the way a baby in the womb feels, but that baby hasn't known enough sound to understand what it's experiencing. But, alive or dead or a foetus, you won't be able to anyway because to understand that you are experiencing total silence requires thought. Thus there is no such thing as true silence between birth and death.

Greece